Sentences with phrase «university organic chemist»

It turns out the curious practice has a basis in science: Recent research on the amphibians» skin secretions led by Moscow State University organic chemist A.T. Lebedev shows they're loaded with peptides, antimicrobial compounds as potent against Salmonella and Staphylococcus bacteria as prescription antibiotics.

Not exact matches

To try to develop a more sensitive probe for isolating individual peptides — short strands of amino acids — from a pool of similar molecules, a team led by chemist Clark Still of Columbia University 4 years ago synthesized small organic compounds that selectively fish out peptides dissolved in chloroform.

Using light to affect the spin rate is a clever approach, says organic chemist Harry Gibson of Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in Blacksburg.

An organic chemist based at Emory University in Atlanta who has helped start several biotech companies, Schinazi has made hundreds of millions of dollars from the drugs, which treat HIV and hepatitis B and help cure hepatitis C.

Their inspiration was a compound with a molecular core consisting of a cube of eight carbon atoms studded with hydrogens, first synthesized in 1964 by Philip Eaton, an organic chemist at the University of Chicago, and his colleagues.

«I think it's fantastic,» says Leo Paquette, an organic chemist at Ohio State University, Columbus.

«Foreign students or workers in the U.S.A. for the first time are frequently disarmed by the informality of research and teaching laboratories,» says Mel Schiavelli, an organic chemist and founding president of Harrisburg University of Science and Technology in Pennsylvania.

Chemists at the Institute of Transformative Bio-Molecules (ITbM), Nagoya University and the JST - ERATO Project have developed a new method to accomplish the programmed synthesis of benzene derivatives with five or six different functional groups that enables access to novel functional organic materials that could not have been reached before.

Electrical engineer Stephen Forrest of the University of Michigan, chemist Mark Thompson of the University of Southern California and their colleagues created the so - called organic LED by combining two layers of phosphorescent diodes — to release green and red wavelength light — and one layer of a fluorescent diode to supply blue wavelength light.

Jeffrey Bode, an organic chemist at the University of Pennsylvania, strives for an environment in which lab members feel that they can discuss all experiments — those that worked and those that didn't.

To find an all - purpose solution, researchers led by Omar Yaghi, a chemist at the University of California, Berkeley, turned to a family of crystalline powders called metal organic frameworks, or MOFs.

Philip Page, an organic chemist at the University of East Anglia, says he will no longer volunteer to peer - review grant proposals for the EPSRC.

In a recent study published in the scientific journal Nature Nanotechnology, physicists and chemists of the University of Münster (Germany) describe an experimental approach to visualising structures of organic molecules with exceptional resolution.

Joseph Sweeney of the University of Reading, an organic chemist who had started a petition against the original EPSRC restrictions, calls the altered policy «not unreasonable.»

Philip Page, an organic chemist at the University of East Anglia who also challenged EPSRC's original policy, still chafes at the modified policy, but he will now continue to peer - review grant proposals for the council.

«We don't think there's any precedent elsewhere,» says Joseph Sweeney of the University of Reading, an organic chemist who signed the online petition and submitted a letter protesting the EPSRC policy to a London newspaper.

Iain Coldham, an organic chemist at the University of Sheffield, takes a firmer position.

At Osaka University, a team of organic chemists has now developed and enhanced a chemical reaction that allows controlled transformations of one of the toughest chemical bonds.

Alán Aspuru - Guzik, a theoretical chemist at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and his colleagues, used computational models to screen a family of organic molecules and identify those likely to be the best semiconductors.

Meyer, a chemist at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and director of its Energy Frontier Research Center in Solar Fuels, noticed that two separate groups of researchers working on two separate parts of the photosynthetic reaction happened to be using the same class of catalyst — ones with an atom of the metal ruthenium surrounded by organic molecules.

Now a team led by Thomas Carell, an organic chemist at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich in Germany, may have found a method.

A team of materials chemists, polymer scientists, device physicists and others at the University of Massachusetts Amherst today report a breakthrough technique for controlling molecular assembly of nanoparticles over multiple length scales that should allow faster, cheaper, more ecologically friendly manufacture of organic photovoltaics and other electronic devices.

Chemists at The University of Texas at Arlington have been the first to demonstrate that an organic semiconductor polymer called polyaniline is a promising photocathode material for the conversion of carbon dioxide into alcohol fuels without the need for a co-catalyst.

Past examples of magnetic organic materials were either unstable in air or were mostly made of metal, making them unsuitable for linking together into a plastic, says chemist Robin Hicks of the University of Victoria, British Columbia, lead author of the study reporting the find in this week's Nature.

Chemists at The University of Texas at Arlington have devised a safer, more environmentally friendly, less expensive and more efficient water - based system for the synthesis of organic compounds typically used in pharmaceuticals, agrochemicals, cosmetics, plastics, textiles and household chemicals.

It all started when James M. Tour, a well - known organic chemist at Rice University and sometime Scientific American author, began to ring the alarm bells about chemical terrorism.

University of California, Berkeley, chemists have now developed a porous and flexible material — a so - called metal - organic framework (MOF)-- for storing methane that addresses these problems.

«The big picture is that [Reed] can now protonate anything,» says Yves Rubin, a physical organic chemist at the University of California, Los Angeles.

According to Craig Hawker of University of California, Santa Barbara, US, the research might change the way chemists make and break covalent bonds, giving them a new paradigm for preparing organic molecules.»

Robert Bittman, an organic lipid chemist and distinguished professor at the City University of New York and Queens College, died Oct. 1 of pancreatic cancer.

Ade, with postdoctoral researcher and first author Long Ye from NC State and chemist He Yan from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, set out to determine at what temperature these systems transform from two separate materials to one homogenous mixture in organic solar cells.

The Art of Synthesis The first plenary symposium called «Art of Synthesis» included talks by the organic chemist Professor Thorsten Bach, Technical University of Munich, the inorganic chemist Professor Ingo Krossing, University of Freiburg, and the biochemist Professor Stephen Kent, University of Chicago, USA.

«These encouraging results should serve as a spark for another advancement in organic synthesis,» says K. C. Nicolaou, a synthetic chemist at Rice University, adding that Chematica could increase speed and productivity in chemistry labs, especially if paired with automated synthesis machines.

According to this video from Abe Books, «Chemists at University College, London have investigated the old book odor and concluded that old books release hundreds of volatile organic compounds into the air from the paper.